Pitchford will remain in the role until the DWP recruits for a permanent replacement, said a DWP spokeswoman. She said: “David Pitchford's role as chief executive for universal credit effectively combines the senior responsible officer and programme director (Hilary's post) roles. As a result, Hilary Reynolds will now move onto other work”

Brian Wernham, independent consultant, said: “I have welcomed DWP’s change to a strategy of ‘prove before we move’ which the outgoing programme director Hilary Reynolds adopted,” he said.

Wernham added: “The Cabinet Office has been pushing the need for more feedback and reaction from public policy trials, and the Universal Credit Programme should test different models for implementing its new regulations before committing to national roll-out using the supporting technology.

The team need to identify which 20% of the system should be prioritised for roll-out from October, and move beyond mere delivery of product - policy level optimisation of value for money should be the objective,” he said.

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